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We are creating cutting-edge propulsion systems that provide industry-leading energy, power, durability, and safety capability for future vehicles, including EV, HEV, and advanced concepts. Our team is critical to achieving GM’s vision of Zero Emissions, Zero Crashes, and Zero Congestion.\nAs a Battery Structures Engineer within the New Products Engineering team, you will develop and mature battery enclosure and structural integration solutions for advanced vehicle architectures. You will apply strong engineering fundamentals to translate vehicle- and pack-level requirements into robust, production-feasible battery structure designs.\nThis role is a technical individual-contributor position. The successful candidate will independently own significant design workstreams, lead detailed technical problem solving, and partner across battery, vehicle, safety, manufacturing, CAE, packaging, thermal, electrical, and supplier teams. You will help deliver battery structures that balance performance, mass, cost, manufacturability, safety, durability, sealing, and integration requirements.\nResponsibilities\nBe committed to safety in everything our team does.\nPromote an inclusive team environment that values diverse backgrounds, opinions, and ideas.\nDesign and mature battery enclosure, mounting, and body/frame integration solutions for new product and advanced vehicle programs.\nTranslate pack- and vehicle-level requirements into component, subsystem, and interface requirements for battery structures.\nDevelop concepts, CAD layouts, engineering studies, and supporting technical documentation for battery structural systems and interfaces.\nPerform and support feasibility assessments and design trade studies involving mass, cost, packaging, structural performance, manufacturability, tooling, and investment.\nOwn assigned battery structure workstreams from early concept through design maturation, virtual validation, issue resolution, and handoff to downstream development teams.\nCollaborate with CAE, Safety, and test teams to interpret crash, durability, stiffness, dynamics, sealing, and other analysis results; incorporate findings into practical design improvements.\nDevelop and refine structural load paths, joints, attachment strategies, cross-members, covers, trays, reinforcements, and interfaces with vehicle body, frame, chassis, thermal, electrical, and high-voltage systems.\nApply design-for-manufacturing principles to proposed solutions, including metal forming, castings, extrusions, joining, sealing, assembly, body shop processing, tooling, and serviceability considerations.\nSupport technical reviews, math syncs, virtual gates, design releases, and cross-functional issue-resolution activities with appropriate engineering rigor.\nWork with suppliers and manufacturing partners to evaluate technical feasibility, mature designs, and resolve design or process risks.\nBenchmark battery enclosures, structural technologies, joining methods, and vehicle-integration approaches to identify opportunities for improved performance and competitiveness.\nContribute to engineering standards, design guidelines, lessons learned, and best practices for battery structures and body integration.\nCommunicate technical status, risks, decisions, and recommendations clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional partners.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.\n5+ years of relevant engineering experience in vehicle structures, battery structures, body structures, chassis structures, or closely related product design areas.\nDirect experience with structural design and development for integrated automotive systems; battery enclosure or RESS structural integration experience is strongly preferred.\nDemonstrated ability to develop and mature mechanical designs from early concepts through detailed engineering and validation.\nWorking knowledge of structural load paths, crashworthiness, durability, stiffness, vibration, sealing, and packaging considerations.\nExperience applying production-feasible design practices involving metal stampings, castings, extrusions, joining, sealing, tooling, and assembly processes.\nAbility to perform and communicate engineering trade studies that balance mass, cost, performance, packaging, timing, and manufacturability.\nExperience working in a cross-functional vehicle development environment with CAE, Safety, Manufacturing, Packaging, Thermal, Electrical, Chassis, and supplier partners.\nStrong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.\nAbility to work effectively both independently and as part of a technical team.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with battery pack enclosure design, battery mounting systems, underbody integration, or RESS-to-vehicle interfaces.\nExperience supporting vehicle crash, durability, stiffness, formability, or sealing analysis and converting results into design actions.\nFamiliarity with GM vehicle development processes, virtual gates, design release practices, and applicable internal requirements.\nUnderstanding of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and automotive safety requirements relevant to battery structures and vehicle integration.\nExperience using CAD, PLM, tolerance analysis, and engineering documentation tools in a production vehicle-development environment.\nExperience working directly with suppliers to mature concepts, review manufacturability, and address technical issues.\nExperience with DFSS methods or structured problem-solving tools.\nMaster’s degree in engineering.\n\nThis role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.\n\nThe selected candidate will be required to travel About GMOur vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.\nWhy Join Us\nWe believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.\nBenefits Overview\nFrom day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.\nNon-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)\nGeneral Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.\nAll employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.\nWe encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.\nAccommodations\nGeneral Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580. 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